Ben Spence doesn’t remember much from that fire in the wee hours of Oct. 31, 2011. Much of it remains a blur. But what he does remember of his own actions, he doesn’t regard as particularly heroic.

The details from the Savannah Fire & Emergency Services incident report beg to differ, as does the 200 Club of the Coastal Empire, which presented Spence and fellow Savannah firefighter Josh Spivey with the club’s 2013 Acts of Valor Awards on Wednesday night before about 150 people at the Charles H. Morris Center.

Spence, a master firefighter with 10½ years on the job, and Spivey, an advanced firefighter with six years with the department, are credited with going into the burning building on West Victory Drive and saving the life of a 9-year-old boy who was unresponsive and not breathing when they found him.

“I don’t really remember a whole lot leading up to it,” Spence said. “I was already asleep. We got the call and over the radio I heard we had a possible entrapment of a child.”

The two waded into the smoke-filled house, turned two corners and found the child lying half in the hall and half in the bathroom.

They pulled the boy outside, where other first responders helped resuscitate him.

Spivey was asked what receiving the award for valor means to him. Like Spence, he spread the credit among his colleagues in the Savannah Fire & Emergency Services.

“It’s just a humbling experience to accept this award on behalf of all of the crews on the scene that night,” he said. “If they hadn’t done their job, that wouldn’t have allowed us to go in there and do ours.”